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Being Progressive In Modern Business

The Internet provides many benefits to a business. It gives you a place to sell your goods, without having to open a physical store to do it. It enables you to reach out to more customers, without expanding your business. And, of course, it also helps you to find and buy better stock from across the world. But, with all the good it can do, the Internet can also have a negative impact on your business. Unlike in the past, companies are now accountable for the way they treat those working with them. Customers will be able to see if you’ve done something bad in the past and will avoid buying from you if others have been left unhappy. To help you with this, this post will be teaching you how to build your business into a progressive one.

The Way You Treat Customers

The people who spend their money with you are some of the most important to your business. Without them, you’d never be able to make money or grow. So, it’s important to make sure that they’re kept as happy as can be. To do this, a lot of companies have started to adopt approaches which involve treating their customers more like friends than a way to make money. By giving good customer support, letting customers know when things go wrong, and how you can make them right will have a huge impact on the way that people look at your company. People will talk to their friends about businesses they use. So, if you give them a bad experience, you may lose more than just one customer.

The Way You Treat Employees

Along with treating your customers correctly, it’s also very important to consider the way that you treat your employees. In most cases, the people working for you will be responsible for a huge portion of the work your business does. Without them, you’d never be able to keep going. To treat customers correctly, you have to consider several aspects. Their past experience, achievements, and credentials should be the only factors which impact their pay. But, it could be worth using salary benchmarking services from Croner or other companies, to make sure that you’re not giving pay unfairly. Along with this, you could also talk to your employees to make sure they’re happy.

Sourcing Your Goods

Finally, it’s time to think about the goods and services you sell, and the impact that they could have on other people around the world. It’s becoming more and more popular for companies to manufacture their goods using conflict-free labor. This means that your products won’t be the result of war, and they won’t be made using child labor. In most cases, it’s against the law to buy products from these sorts of conditions, anyway. Along with this, you should also make sure that people are paid fairly for the products you sell, along with being given plenty of opportunity in the future.

Hopefully, this post will give you a good idea of what can be done when you’re trying to make your business more progressive. There is more than one reason to go through this sort of change. But, most of all, you should be doing it to improve the lives of those around you, your employees and your customers!

Published by Chantal Bechervaise

I blog about everything surrounding the world of work and how it intersects with personal life. Topics include: HR, Leadership, Social Media, Technology, Work-Life Balance, Employee Engagement, Workplace Culture and Achieving Success and Happiness.
It is all about your own personal balance and what is appropriate for you.
I also love the outdoors and reconnecting with nature.
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